To Catch a Predator (partially found chatlogs, uncut interviews and police interrogations of Dateline NBC reality series; 2004-2007)

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To Catch a Predator (also abbreviated to TCAP) is a hidden camera investigation series broadcast on the TV news program Dateline NBC from 2004-2007. The premise involved host Chris Hansen confronting adult men arriving at a stinghouse with the intent to have sex with underage teens, following an often-graphic online conversation with the child. In reality, the "minors" were adult decoys from the online watchdog group Perverted Justice, who would establish online profiles of underage individuals that would wait for adults to initiate a conversation with them. Twelve investigations were conducted, resulting in the arrests and convictions of the majority of men that arrived at the stinghouses. Since then, fans of the show have sought out the full episodes, podcasts, chatlogs, uncut Hansen interviews and uncut police interrogations involving these men, with these media being coveted among TCAP enthusiasts.

Background

Chatlogs are the first point of contact between a potential predator and a Perverted Justice decoy. Perverted Justice volunteers would create fake profiles pretending to be underage teens interested in sex, across multiple notable chatrooms, including MSN, AOL and Yahoo!, and wait for adults to contact them. Upon receiving contact with a potential predator, the chatlogs are recorded, where most chats will swiftly turn towards meeting up for sex. Many of the predators would describe in graphic detail what they wanted to do with the decoys, while also sending pornographic pictures to them. The chatlogs were already enough to incriminate most predators, which depending on the state, could see them be charged with a misdemeanour or a felony. In the first two stings for Dateline NBC, Perverted Justice immediately posted the chatlogs upon successful busts.

However, when police were involved from the Riverside sting onwards, the watchdog would only post chatlogs where a conviction was achieved, taking down all pre-2006 chats where convictions were not made as part of the Information First scheme. Nevertheless, all chatlogs from Bethpage and Fairfax are accessible through Web Archive, while because most predators were ultimately convicted in the other stings, their chatlogs are still accessible on the Perverted Justice website to the present day. However, some chatlogs were never published, usually when an acquittal has occurred, while others were not published because some predators absconded prior to convictions.

After agreeing online to meet in person, the predator would then enter the stinghouse, only to be confronted by Chris Hansen. Often, the broadcast of the segment would be edited for the sake of brevity and for entertainment purposes. Nevertheless, uncut footage would sometimes be accessible. Most notably, most uncut Riverside and Ohio interviews were published on MSNBC, which was NBC's digital subscriber service. While these clips can no longer be accessed on MSNBC, some have resurfaced on YouTube. Others remain missing as of the present day.

Finally, highlights of police interrogations were also shown in some broadcasts, often being the last piece of media featuring a highlighted predator. Of those that have been found, most originate from the Greenville, Flagler Beach and Bowling Green stings, and were obtained thanks to FOIA requests. Whereas some clips from other stings were included in the television broadcasts, others, including Bethpage NY, have never been publicly released in any form.

Bethpage, New York

The first sting was conducted in May 2004, which saw 19 men show up over a period of three days. Perverted Justice and Dateline NBC had not yet teamed with police to conduct a parallel investigation, and so all bar Ryan Hogan, a New York City Fire Department member, were not arrested following their busts. Hogan was investigated with the Feds and would later be arrested and convicted, although his police interrogation video has never surfaced online. Another predator in this sting Matt Dooley aka Darkhero a paranoid schizophrenic guy was the only predator to not have their identity shown on tv and almost got charged. This was due to his past criminal history however he was given a deal where he could just go back to the mental institution and avoid charges which he did. Years later he would go on Joey's tcap channel in an interview and try to explain his appearance on the show but instead just rants about conspiracy theories. In 2021 Chris Hansen made a podcast revealing his last name and calling him the most dangerous predator he ever caught. No uncut Hansen confrontations have leaked, but because Perverted Justice published all chatlogs immediately following the sting, they are all accessible on archived versions of its website. Since this was datelines first sting with no police and some of these predators lived in the NYC area and is hard to do background checks their last names are unknown since there is very little public data except for Dooley and Hogan obviously as well as Steve Reddington the first predator ever caught by Chris Hansen and Musti Quotiza the second predator through background checks were they lived.

Bethpage NY full episode

Predator	Chatlog	Podcast
Eddie	Found	No
Craig	Found	No
Esteban	Found	No
Mike	Found	No
Musti Quotiza	Found	No
Steve Reddington	Found	No
Matt "Darkhero" Dooley	Found	Yes
Ryan Hogan	Found	Yes

Unaired

Several men who were caught in the sting either never got a chance to be interviewed by Hansen due to another suspect already being interviewed, they were left unaired, or they did not show up to the sting house, although all of their chat logs are accessible.

Predator	Chatlog	Podcast
Alex	Found	No
John	Found	No
Paul	Found	No
Anthony	Found	No
Greg	Found	No
Mike	Found	No
Rich	Found	No
Jason	Found	No
Brian	Found	No
Taylor	Found	No
Ron	Found	No

Fairfax, Virginia

The Fairfax, Virginia sting was conducted in November 2005. Over three days, another 19 men showed up. Among them include David Kaye, a Rabbi; Steven Bennof, a special education teacher; Dr. Jeffery Beck, an emergency room and pediatric doctor; Joe Wunderler, an Army Sergeant who also planned to commit bestiality on a dog; Aladdin Shamoun who almost passed out a couple of times during the interview; and John Kennelly, who not only entered the house naked but also set up another meeting with an underage boy a day later.

Controversy did arise, as Fairfax County police were reluctant to arrest any of the predators. However, pressure from Perverted Justice meant that the majority who were featured in the episode were charged and convicted. With the exception of Doctor Beck since his chatlog was much less sexually explicit than the others but did have his medical license suspende. Through medical board searches it appears his license is still revoked to this day in Maryland as well as others states he's was qualified in like California and New York. However, the other predators with full segments were successfully criminally charged. John Kennelly was arrested and convicted with the Fairfax County police Aladdin Shamoun also was charged with the Local police but he absconded presumably back to his native country Egypt to avoid an arrest and prosecution. The military also played a big role in arresting Joe Wunderler who was convicted served time and is a sex offender to this day. Since Rabbi David Kaye and Steven Bennof crossed state/district lines and were high profiled people they also were charged and convicted by the FBI and are both sex offenders to this day as well.

As before, all chatlogs were immediately posted on the Perverted Justice website and can be accessed through Web Archive links In addition, Rabbi David Kaye's uncut Hansen confrontation was uploaded to YouTube on October 30th, 2008, and currently remains as the only uncut Fairfax interview that is publicly accessible.

Fairfax/Washington D.C. full episode

Predator raw

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Hansen Confrontation	Podcast
Aladdin Shamoun	Found	Lost	Yes
Joe Wunderler	Found	Lost	Yes
Steven Bennof	Found	Lost	Yes
Dr. Jeffrey Beck	Found	Lost	Yes
Rabbi David Kaye	Found	Found	No
John Kennelly	Found (both chatlogs)	Lost (both encounters)	Yes

Unaired

Several men who came to the sting house either only appeared in brief highlights were left completely unaired or did not stay for an interview. Only two were successfully charged and convicted Mark Baggette a really good-looking guy former football player and one of the three runners in the beginning of the episode who like Kennelly showed up twice in a 24 hour period and showed up drunk the first time. Which he was arrested charged and convicted with the local Fairfax Police. However his sex offender registry hasn’t been updated in years indicating Baggette may have been expunged of that charge. Dennis Thomas another unaired predator who was an engineer with the navy was also convicted with the military. All uncut confrontations of these unaired suspects remain lost, almost all chat logs have been found, with the only exception being Harold Higley, who would later be arrested and sent to prison in 2012 following an unrelated sting where he tried once again to meet an underage girl for sex.

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Hansen Confrontation	Podcast
Yonas Getachew	Found	Lost	No
Mark Baggette	Found	Lost	Yes
Dennis Thomas	Found	Lost	No
Harold Higley III	Lost	Lost	No
Arpit "umbrella guy" Maheshwari	Found	Lost	No
John Phillip Jarrell	Found	Lost	No
Amir/Alex Ferahani	Found	Lost	No
Timothy Andrew "Andy" Kane	Found	Lost	No
Artie Makepeace jr.	Found	Lost	No
Sean/Kamphon Akkrawong	Found	Lost	No
Evan Matthew Frank	Found	Lost	No

Riverside, California

The Riverside, California sting was conducted in January 2006 and saw a record 51 men arrive at the house over three days. This was the first sting to feature direct police involvement and thus saw the arrests of 50 men. One was released without charge due to appearing alongside Sebastian Rodriguez. As it was the latter who initiated the chatlog, only he was charged and later convicted. Among notable predators featured in the Riverside, sting includes Walter Babst, a high school teacher; Daniel Allen, who was previously convicted of spousal abuse; Joseph Federico, who was previously convicted of manslaughter; as well as Chris Urban who came to the house high on meth and a few who were already registered sex offenders, including Robert Lyons, Jean Pierre Wehry, Gregory Karnos, and Thomas Bodnar.

As the chatlogs were used in a pending police investigation, they would not be published unless a conviction was made. In all, 48 were convicted, with William Lawrence Havey having been found not guilty, and Charles Harding having died in jail as a result of not taking his medication. The majority of chatlogs are accessible on Perverted Justice's website as of the present day, including Harding's as part of "Other Resolutions" seeing as he had neither been convicted nor acquitted. However, the chatlogs of Kurt Lemke and Peter Christopher Moore remain inaccessible to this day, although the reason is unknown why, most likely due to them not being archived properly. Thomas Bodnar's actual chatlog from the sting is also missing for unclear reasons, but another encounter he had with PJ remains accessible through an archive version of the website. An archive link on the Wayback Machine has allowed for the original chat log to be successfully recovered. Jean Pierre Wehry's unique email conversation with the decoy was also not published but would be uploaded to YouTube by Joey's TCAP Channel on May 26th, 2017.

While no police interrogations are currently accessible, some uncut Hansen confrontations are viewable as they were included as part of the MSNBC subscription service, being uploaded to YouTube years later. In late 2015/early 2016, almost all To Catch a Predator content was purged from the platform by NBC filing copyright complaints. Although most of the material was re-uploaded years later, some have been taken down a second time due to YouTube's policy against harassment and bullying. Evidence through internet searches points out that Abraham Koujababian and Erik Pallesen's uncut interviews (and possibly others) were once available, but have been lost to this day.

Riverside full episode

Predator Raw

Predator raw (Archive version)

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Hansen Confrontation	Podcast
Kurt Lemke	Lost	Found	No
Walter Babst	Found	Found	Yes
Scott Smith	Found	Lost	No
Jerry Griffitt	Found	Found	Yes
Peter Christopher "Chris" Moore	Lost	Found	No
Steven Coates	Found	Lost	Yes
Daniel Pulido	Found	Found	Yes
Keith Williams	Found	Found	Yes
Erik Pallesen	Found	Lost	Yes
Michael Burks	Found	N/A	No
Sebastian Rodriguez	Found	Found	Yes
Christopher "Chris" Urban	Found	Lost	Yes
Paul Constantinescu	Found	Lost	Yes
Inderjeet Singh	Found	Lost	Yes
Charles Harding	Found	Found	Yes
Roberto Forte	Found	Found	No
Abraham Koujababian	Found	Lost	No
Daniel "Dan" Allen	Found	Found	Yes
Joseph Federico	Found	N/A	No
Robert Lyons	Found	Found	Yes
Jean Pierre Wehry	Found	Found	Yes
Gregory "Greg" Karnos	Found	Found	Yes
Thomas Bodnar	Found	Found	Yes

Unaired

In addition to the predators who were featured in the main televised broadcast, some uncut interviews of unfeatured men were published on MSNBC, which included Jerry Wayne-Martin Kosis.. It is suspected thanks to analysing data from currently inaccessible Web Archive pages of MSNBC that additional uncut interviews featuring other unaired predators were indeed available, but have not resurfaced since.Like Danny Swinny. Like with the aired predators, some of these interviews, such as the ones with Corey Ahia, Nicolas Cocos, Andre Jackson were deleted by YouTube due to changes in their policy, leaving them either completely lost once again or only partially recovered through their use in compilation videos created by fans. However, a Google Drive file was recently found which had all the uncut interviews.

A decent amount of the unaired predators were waiting in their cars or walking towards the house and were arrested immediately just like Michael Burks' arrest, so they never had a Chris Hansen interview. Also some of them ran like Eduardo Guilen Joege Correa and John Mahon however the uncut footage of them running from Hansen which was available on the MSNBC subscription service evidently has been lost to this day. Miguel Sosa also showed up a week late for the sting and therefore no interview for him exists either. As for chatlogs, all but Hyung Paek, Daryl Medley and William Havey are accounted for; Paek absconded prior to his trial, Havey was acquitted, and Medley for unknown reasons. Medley's missing chat log, combined with the fact it is unknown if he even had an interview or not makes him one of the more elusive predators caught on the show.

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Hansen Confrontation	Podcast
Corey Ahia	Found	Found	Yes
Rafiullah "Rafi"Ahmadi	Found	Found	No
Richer Breault	Found	Found	Yes
Nicolas Cocos	Found	Found	Yes
Andre Jackson	Found	Found	No
Jerry Wayne Martin-Kosis	Found	Found	Yes
Hyung "Eddie" Paek	Lost	Found	No
Michael Seibert (1st)	Found	Found	Yes
Gilbert Sutherland	Found	Found	Yes
John Christopher "Chris" Weaver	Found	Found	No
Victor Wells	Found	Found	No
Danny Swinney	Found	Lost	No
Daryl Medley	Lost	Unknown	No
Hoi Dick "Eddie" Chan	Found	N/A	No
Eduardo Gullien	Found	Lost	No
Eric Gamonal	Found	N/A	No
Jonathan Daniel Vasquez	Found	Unknown	No
Jorge Colorado/ Correa	Found	Lost	No
Singh Karampal Nakai	Found	N/A	No
Miguel Sosa	Found	N/A	No
Mitchell Rhodes Hayek	Found	N/A	No
Phillip Jaruhungsin	Found	Lost	No
Spencer Cho	Found	N/A	No
William Havey	Lost	N/A	No
Alvin Hall Jr.	Found	Unknown	No
Greg Diederich	Found	N/A	No
Maurice Ruiz	Found	N/A	No
John Mahon	Found	Lost	No

Greenville, Ohio

The Greenville, Ohio sting was conducted in March 2006 and saw seventeen men be arrested over a three-day period. Among notable predators include James Rutherford, a teacher; and Kevin Westerbeck, who not only was set to go to prison a few days after the sting, as he had previously been convicted not only for appearing at an earlier, unrelated sting, but he would also later be convicted for sexually abusing his underage niece. All men who showed up were convicted, and thus their chatlogs are accessible on the Perverted Justice website. Additionally, some uncut interviews and police interrogations would be uploaded to MSNBC, and eventually be re-uploaded to YouTube. Others were previously available on MSNBC based on Web Archive data but currently remain missing.

Some uncut interviews (such as Nathan Downhour's and Ronnell Stephens-Tun's) that were available on YouTube have since been removed due to changes in YouTube's policy. However, like with the Riverside predators, have recently been found again thanks to a Google Drive containing uncut footage from the RIverside and Ohio stings. A small snippet from John Frantz's uncut interview is available, although the full confrontation has yet to surface. Timothy Isaac's original segment and his Predator Raw entry have been edited together to create a rough uncut interview, although some unavoidable fast cuts make it clear some footage is still missing.

Part 1 Ohio Full episode

Part 2 Ohio Full episode

Predator Raw

Predator Raw

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Hansen Confrontation	Uncut Police Interrogation	Podcast
Alonzo Wade	Found	Lost	Lost	Yes
Nathan Downhour	Found	Found	Found	Yes
Jason Schoeppner	Found	Found	Lost	Yes
Timothy Isaac	Found	Partially Found	Lost	Yes
Davut Ozkan	Found	Found	Found	Yes
Josh Tuttle	Found	Lost	Lost	No
John Frantz	Found	Partially Found	Lost	Yes
Ronnelle Stephens-Tun	Found	Found	Lost	No
James Rutherford	Found	Found	Found	Yes
Jay Reffner	Found	Lost	Found	Yes
Roger Brummitt	Found	Lost	Lost	No
Kenneth Brinkman	Found	Found	Found	Yes
Jeffery "Jeff" Stacy	Found	Found	Found	Yes
Robb Kline	Found	Lost	Found	Yes
Glenn Mitchell	Found	N/A	Lost	No
Kevin Westerbeck	Found	Found	Found	Yes

Unaired

Nineteen-year-old Nicholas Bailey also showed up and ended up being convicted. His chatlog and uncut Hansen interview are currently accessible, but his uncut police interrogation (if he has one) has never been publicly seen.

Twenty-seven-year-old Mahadevaswamy Chandrashekaraiah (known as "some guy with a really long name that showed in Ohio") is one of the most elusive and mysterious predators from the show. Appearing only in snippets during the court proceedings, his chat log is available, but his uncut interview that was once available on the MSNBC subscription service is lost to this day. His police interrogation is inaccessible as well, although he can be heard being interrogated in the background of Kenneth Brinkman's interrogation. He was later deported back to his native country (presumably India) after serving his prison sentence.

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Hansen Confrontation	Uncut Police Interrogation	Podcast
Nicholas “Nick” Bailey	Found	Found	Lost	Yes
Mahadevaswamy “Deeva Chandra” Chandrashekriah	Found	Lost	Partially Found (Audio), Lost (Video)	No

Fort Myers, Florida

The Fort Myers, Florida sting was conducted in April 2006. Over three days, 24 men between the ages of 21 to 61 were arrested. Among notable predators include Clifford Wallach, who brought his five-year-old son with him to the stinghouse; and Marvin Lakhan, who entered the house naked and wanted a girl to commit bestiality on a cat.

Of the men arrested, three would be acquitted; these included Michael Wilusz and Brian Gosselin, whose attorneys demanded Perverted Justice's hard drives for a court-ordered inspection, with the organization refusing to comply, claiming the hard drives had been destroyed. Thus, Wilusz and Gosselin were allowed to walk free. Meanwhile, Thomas Moffitt was acquitted because his attorney successfully convinced the jury that since Moffitt did not enter the house and was "trying to leave", he had not committed a crime. David Schumacher also had his charges dropped. The FBI took over his case since he had another case and charges pending against him for grand theft auto. He was given a plea deal by pleading guilty to the original charges, meaning he did not have to be sentenced for any sex crimes. However, after posting his chatlog anyway, members of Perverted Justice insisted that Schumacher was charged and convicted of assault for connection with the chat, but this is simply untrue.

The remaining predators were convicted, with their chatlogs published on the website. The chatlogs of Wilusz and Gosselin would later be found and reuploaded as part of a Google Drive file, but Moffitt's remains missing. The Google Drive has since been taken down, but readings of the chats on YouTube can still be found. No uncut interview footage nor police interrogations have ever been released publicly for this sting, except for David Schumacher, who has had his uncut Hansen interview recovered by editing his aired segment together with his Predator Raw segment.

Episode part 2

Episode part 1

Predator raw (archive)

Predator Raw

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Hansen Confrontation	Podcast
Michael Wilusz	Found	Lost	Yes
David Schumacher	Found	Found	Yes
Dennis Ramsey	Found	Lost	No
Thomas Moffitt	Lost	N/A however there is an encounter Moffit has with the decoy Emily waiting outside trying to get her in his car but the uncut interaction of that is lost too	Yes
Ellahzar Henson	Found	Lost	No
Fredi Fernandez	Found	Lost	No
Jose "Pepe" Falcon	Found	Lost	Yes
Thomas Coffen	Found	Lost	Yes
Eric Thornton	Found	Lost	No
Donald Morrison	Found	Lost	Yes
Clifford Wallach	Found	Lost	Yes
Raul Brenes	Found	Lost	No
Brian Gosselin	Found	Lost	Yes
Kenneth Forton	Found	Lost	Yes
Elias Rudy Bailon	Found	Lost	Yes
Calvin Lee Greer	Found	Lost	Yes
Ryan McIntosh	Found	Lost	Yes
Dallas Lee	Found	Lost	No
Thomas Campbell	Found	Lost	Yes
Marvin Lakhan	Found	Lost	Yes

Unaired

Two predators who were unaired, Sunday School teacher Brian Emmens and teen mental health counsellor Peter Ernandez, are both considered huge missed opportunities by the TCaP fandom due to their jobs. Daniel Trust was also unaired, while Miguel Luiz Loyoza left the house and only had a very short partial interview as he left midway. As with the aired and other unaired predators, their chatlogs are all available, but no uncut confrontations or police interrogations have ever been released.

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Hansen Confrontation	Podcast
Peter Ernandez	Found	Lost	No
Brian Emmons	Found	Lost	No
Daniel Trust	Found	Lost	No
Miguel Luiz Lozoya	Found	Lost	No

It should be noted that another episode called "Where are they now" was released in between Fort Meyers and Fortson. While of course it is outdated it does show clips of footage not seen in other episode like John Kennelly arrest footage Erik Pallesen in court pleading guilty which is why it deserves a link on here

Where are they now?

Fortson, Georgia

The Fortson, Georgia sting was conducted in July 2006 and saw 20 men be arrested over several days. Among them included Cody Green, who later faced additional charges for indecently exposing himself to an eight-year-old girl at a swimming pool; and Rolando Restocruz, an Iraqi war veteran. With the exception of Abhilash Bhaskaran, who absconded prior to his trial, all the predators were convicted, and thus their chatlogs were published on Perverted Justice's website.

Although no full police interrogations have ever resurfaced online and almost all uncut confrontations are lost, Cody Green's uncut confrontation has been partially recovered, having been unnoticed on YouTube for years since its original upload on 15 December 2015 by a user called X0AliciaX0

Episode part 1

Episode part 2

Predator Raw

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Hansen Confrontation	podcast
Denis Coulson	Found	Lost	Yes
Christopher Cannon	Found	Lost	Yes
John Adam Daniels	Found	Lost	Yes
Matthew Cogburn	Found	Lost	Yes
George Cleary	Found	Lost	No
Peter Sciacca	Found	Lost	Yes
James "Jim" Klein	Found	Lost	Yes
Cody Green	Found	Partially Found	Yes
Marvin Harrison Smith II	Found	Lost	Yes
David Hilbish	Found	Lost	No
Reymundo Anguiano	Found	Lost	No
Todd West	Found	Lost	Yes
William Rowell	Found	Lost	No
Gerald White	Found	Lost	Yes
Brian Lindsey	Found	Lost	No
Marshall Girtman	Found	Lost	Yes
Rolando Restocruz	Found	Lost	Yes
Joseph Myrick	Found	Lost	Yes
Abhilash Bhaskaran	Lost	Lost	No

Unaired

Only one predator, Jacob Cason, who has become semi-infamous for his strong accent, had his interview with Chris Hansen completely unaired. He can be seen entering the sting house and making a case at his bond hearing.

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Hansen Confrontation	Podcast
Jacob Cason	Found	Lost	No

Petaluma, California

The Petaluma, California sting was conducted in August 2006 and saw 31 men arrested over three days. Among them include Piedmont physician and cancer research specialist Dr. Maurice Wolin; and Joseph Roisman, a Navy sailor who would ultimately be acquitted because the Judge accused Dateline NBC and Perverted Justice of entrapment. Thus, Roisman's chatlog was never published, though many others would. Chandra Nunna was another predator to be acquitted of all the charges. Although unlike Roisman his case details are very private. But evidently it was for Nunna’s chatlogs not being published anywhere on PJ the California sex offender list and lived in the USA post the sting. The chatlogs of Pulkit Mathur and Kanishk Lakhanpal also went unpublished since Lakhanpal was not charged due to lack of sexual intent in his chatlog as noted in the episode.and Mathur absconded most likely back to his native country. No uncut interview footage has resurfaced online.

Previously, no uncut police interrogations were available. However, prominent TCAP enthusiast HEY PEPE!!! received contact from a Petaluma source who revealed they had copies of some interrogations. Said source explained that most have since become lost to time. Nevertheless, on 2nd May 2023, Wolin's full interrogation was uploaded to YouTube, followed by Mathur's on 13th May. Lakhanpal's interrogation was partially uploaded on 19th May, with the rest also having become inaccessible over time. Finally, HEY PEPE!!! uploaded Vaikunth Soundarajan's interrogation on 26th May. He later confirmed on the Temple of TCAP forum that this was the last Petaluma interrogation he could obtain.

Full Episode

Full Episode

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Police Interrogation	Podcast
Norberto Avalos	Found	Lost	No
Jonathan Stemen	Found	Lost	Yes
Mike Vestal	Found	Lost	Yes
Manuel Uson	Found	Lost	No
Vaikunth Soundarajan	Found	Found	No
Fernando Bernal	Found	Lost	No
Juan Henry Guzman	Found	Lost	No
Shaka Khan	Found	Lost	No
Steven Cartlidge	Found	Lost	No
Jeffrey Couture	Found	Lost	Yes
Jaswinder Cheema	Found	Lost	Yes
Joseph Roisman	Lost	Lost	Yes
Yancy Wallace	Found	Lost	No
Anurag Tawari	Found	Lost	No
Chandrashekhar “Chandra” Nunna	Lost	Lost	No
Pulkit Mathur	Lost	Found	Yes
Kanishk Lakhanpal	Lost	Partially Found	Yes
Juan Carlos Gutierrrez	Found	Lost	No
Dr. Maurice Wolin	Found	Found	Yes

Unaired

Like the prior stings, some of the men's segments were either left on the cutting room floor entirely or were only shown in very brief highlights. One unaired predator Gopichand Pai the predator seen in the beginning of the episode talking to the decoy and being told take a seat by Hansen. Pai was convicted but absconded before sentencing back to his native country India. Like with most the absconded predators his full chat log was never published. However a sample of it was posted on his "Most Wanted" page on Perverted Justice's website.

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Police Interrogation	Podcast
Gopichand Pai	Partially Found	Lost	No
Eugenio Peres	Found	Lost	No
John Craig Taylor	Found	Lost	No
Aminder Singh	Found	Lost	No
Mohammad Aksoum	Found	Lost	No
Jamie Mendieta	Found	Lost	No
Ernesto Linayao	Found	Lost	No
Thinh Tuong Ly	Found	Lost	No
Andrew Jordan	Found	Lost	No
David Fraser	Found	Lost	No
Bing Liang	Found	Lost	No
Wai Kit Cheuk	Found	Lost	No

Long Beach, California

The Long Beach, California sting was conducted in September 2006 and saw 38 men arrested. Among notable predators include Michael Warrecker, who had a rape fetish; and Michael Seibert, who had previously been caught in the Riverside sting. All the men highlighted in the episode were ultimately convicted, with their chatlogs published on the Perverted Justice website.

Additionally, a few uncut videos concerning the interviews of Warrecker, Paul Clemente, Seibert, Corye Blagg, Farzad Kalantari and Corey Edgar have also been uploaded to YouTube from the defunct MSNBC subscription service. However, with notable jumpcuts, as well as some broadcasted footage not being included in the uncut videos, it is clear that the entirety of these uncut Hansen confrontations have not been found as of yet. No police interrogations have ever been made public for this sting.

Three unaired predators were not charged and their chatlogs have been lost. For some unaired predators, it is unknown if they even had any sort of interaction with Hansen or if they were arrested right away

Long Beach part 1

Long beach part 2

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Hansen Confrontation	Podcast
Michael Warrecker	Found	Partially Found	Yes
Matthew Bland	Found	N/A	No
Matthew Nash	Found	Lost	Yes
Selvin Galeano	Found	Lost	No
Paul Clemente	Found	Partially Found	Yes
Robert Salinas	Found	Lost	No
James Cisneros	Found	Lost	No
Robert Culbertson	Found	Lost	Yes
Justin Smith	Found	Lost	Yes
Qays Mahjoob	Found	Lost	Yes
Michael Seibert (2nd)	Found	Partially Found	Yes
Corye Blagg	Found	Partially Found	No
Farzad Kalantari	Found	Partially Found	No
Satinder Thind	Found	Lost	Yes
Josiah Walker	Found	Lost	No
Joshua Larios	Found	Lost	No
Maroof Farooq	Found	N/A. However, Farooq and another man sent in a fifteen-year-old to "scout" the area, where he was confronted by Hansen. This uncut confrontation is also lost.	No
Loren Hayden	Found	N/A	No
Alvin King	Found	N/A	No
Frank Sierras	Found	Lost	Yes
Robert "Brandon" Williams	Found	N/A	No
Corey Edgar	Found	Partially Found	Yes

Unaired

Because of the large influx of men caught in the sting, many men were either not included in the broadcast after being interviewed by Chris Hansen, or they arrived at the same time as other men, and effectively never got the chance to be interviewed. Three of the men - Mario Martinez, Uribe Lazo and Kevin Lasz - were acquitted of their crimes, so their chat logs are also missing. It is also unconfirmed if Martinez, Brandon Franklin, Ernesto Avila, David Frandsen and Conrad "James" Valdez were actually interviewed or not. Lasz's involvement in the sting would later be verified when he was arrested a second time for attempting to sexually assault an elderly woman almost a decade later.

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Hansen Confrontation	Podcast
Luciano Dimas	Found	Lost	No
Aturo Chino	Found	Lost	No
Brandon Franklin	Found	Unknown	No
Anoosh Pajand	Found	N/A	No
Ramin Sarajari	Found	N/A	No
Ernesto Avila	Found	Unknown	No
David Frandsen	Found	Unknown	No
James Carlton	Found	Lost	No
Conrad "James" Valdez	Found	Unknown	No
Chris Reyes	Found	Lost	No
Jimmy Magtira	Found	Lost	No
Gabor Nagy	Found	Lost	No
Tanisorn "Moe" Lam	Found	Lost	No
Mario Martinez	Lost	Unknown	No
Uribe Lazo	Lost	Lost	No
Kevin Lasz	Lost	Lost	No

Murphy, Texas

The Murphy, Texas sting was conducted in November 2006 and saw 25 men being caught in the sting. The Murphy sting proved to be the most infamous and controversial in the show's history. Not only were many Murphy residents unhappy with Dateline NBC appearing in their town, to the point where some conducted a protest outside the stinghouse, but it also saw the suicide of Louis Conradt, an assistant district attorney, following a botched arrest attempt at his home. Following the Conradt suicide, the Texas district attorney decided not to press charges for the predators caught in the sting. Thus, very little media outside of the episodes themselves are publicly accessible.

Conradt's chatlog would later be published on the Perverted Justice website under "Other Resolutions". The chatlog of Stanley Kendall, a teacher caught in the sting, would eventually be uploaded to YouTube by Joey's TCAP Channel on August 12th, 2019. Joey would also upload Edward Hollingsworth V's chatlog on October 14th, 2021. John Ed Baker's chat was recovered by The Skip Tracer on November 21st, 2021.

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Predator	Chatlog	Podcast
Timothy Gilliam	Lost	No
Randall Wolford	Lost	Yes
Patrick Parr	Lost	No
Justin Estes	Lost	No
Sajjad Mohammad	Lost	No
William Dow	Lost	No
Alan Chernay	Lost	No
Stanley Kendall	Found	Yes
Christopher Cothrum	Lost	No
Eric Rubalcava	Lost	No
Timothy Knowles	Lost	No
David Pann	Lost	No
Edward Hollingsworth V	Found	Yes
John Baker	Found	No
Steve Rosello	Lost	No
Louis William "Bill" Conradt	Found	Yes

Unaired

Five men were not featured on the show. Although Asif Khokar was not interviewed by Hansen due to showing up at the sting house while Louis Conradt was being arrested, it is unknown if Milan Mehta, Samuel Tanguma, Jose Soto and Paulo Deassuncao were interviewed or not. Asif was the only predator in this sting to be convicted because a detective and the DA from his local district (Harris County near Houston) wanted to charge him and take over the cases that were not going to be prosecuted in Collin County in their district. Additionally, in 2022, The Skip Tracer obtained the transcript for Milan Mehta's chat log.

Predator	Chatlog	Podcast
Asif Khokar	Found	No
Milan Mehta	Found	No
Samuel Tanguma	Lost	No
Jose Soto	Lost	No
Paulo Deassuncao	Lost	No

Flagler Beach, Florida

The Flagler Beach, Florida sting was conducted in December 2006 and saw the arrests of 21 men over four days. Among them include James Wiles, who not only claimed that he could not have sex, but also admitted in his interrogation that he was previously accused of sexually abusing his own children; Safraz Khan and Yazan Asfour, who appeared at the stinghouse within five minutes of each other, and were thus interviewed together by Hansen; and Todd Spikes, an Alabama policeman who was found to have multiple guns and a body dump kit in his car. 18 would be convicted, with their chatlogs published on Perverted Justice's website. Wiles, Asfour and Mohammed Abdallah would later abscond, with Wiles being re-arrested in November 2009, only to die in 2010 before his trial because he refused to take his medication. Thus, all three chatlogs were not published on Perverted Justice's website, but Wiles' chatlog would be uploaded to YouTube by Joey's TCAP Channel on August 25th, 2020. Asfour and Mohammed's chat logs remain lost.

Additionally, while no uncut Hansen interviews have ever resurfaced, all the Flagler Beach police interrogations, including the unaired predators Anthony Phillips and Stephen Holt, have been uploaded to YouTube by The Cappening Channel through freedom of information requests. David Wagner did not agree to speak to police, so no interrogation of his is believed to exist. Safraz Khan's interrogation was originally uploaded in three parts, but all but part one were taken down, presumably due to the change in policy. A full version with Yazan Asfour's interrogation attached to it exists online.

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Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Police Interrogation	Podcast
Mohammed Abdallah	Lost	Found	Yes
Brian Dory	Found	Found, Found	No
William Roach	Found	Found, Found	Yes
Deepak Bist	Found	Found, Found	No
Anthony Sorrentino	Found	Found, Found	No
David Wagner	Found	N/A	Yes
Charles Gregory Green	Found	Found, Found	Yes
Brian Ruffino	Found	Found, Found	No
Michael Collins	Found	Found	No
Safraz Khan	Found	Found	Yes
Yazan Asfour	Lost	Found	Yes
Daniel Peters Kelly	Found	Found, Found, Found	Yes
Michael Reyes	Found	Found, Found	No
James Wiles	Found	Found, Found, Found	Yes
David Demers	Found	Found, Found	No
Oanh Le	Found	Found	Yes
Lance Fine	Found	Found	Yes
Todd Spikes	Found	Found	Yes

Unaired suspects

Stephen Holt, who had previously almost been caught in the Ohio sting but was too young at the time to be arrested, and Anthony Phillips, who would later become a deputy despite his involvement in the sting, were both interviewed by Chris Hansen, but their interviews were never televised, and no uncut footage has surfaced either. According to one of the Perverted Justice volunteers, Stephen laughed when Hansen brought up a photograph Stephen had sent of his genitals to who he believed to be a thirteen-year-old girl. Their chat logs and uncut police interrogations are both available online.

One more unaired predator, Samuel Ray Harrison, also appeared in this episode who coincidentally lived less then a mile from the sting house. Unlike Holt and Phillips, however, he never went inside the sting house. He waited out front until Hansen came, but instead of talking to Hansen, he ran and was arrested. His chatlog and uncut police interrogation are both also publicly available.

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Police Interrogation	Podcast
Stephen Holt	Found	Found	No
Anthony Phillips	Found	Found	Yes
Samuel Ray Harrison	Found	FoundFound	No

Ocean County, New Jersey

The Ocean County, New Jersey sting was conducted from late March to early April 2007 and saw the arrests of 28 men. Among them include Todd Lewis, a registered sex offender previously convicted of sexually abusing a young girl he met online; and Kazuo Akutsu, who ended up passing out and crashing into a bar counter in the sting house. Almost all of the men were convicted, aside from Tech Sergeant Ernest Timmons, Timmons having passed away while in jail because of liver failure. His chatlog was published on Perverted Justice's website as part of "Other Resolutions". The remaining chatlogs were also published on the website, with the exception of Savio Noronha's, with speculation being he managed to be acquitted of the charges against him.

Although no police interrogations have been made publicly accessible, a small snippet of Kazuo Akutsu's uncut Hansen confrontation has been found, namely when he passes out and smashes into the bar at the end of the interview. Some uncut footage from Michael Lubrano's Hansen interview can be found online as well.

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Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Hansen Confrontation	Podcast
Gregory Stewart	Found	Lost	Yes
David Russell	Found	Lost	No
Eugene Daily	Found	Lost	Yes
Daniel Figueroa	Found	Lost	No
Selwyn Knights	Found	Lost	No
Dwayne Chisholm	Found	Lost	Yes
James Erick Santil	Found	Lost	No
Ziegfeld Rivera	Found	Lost	No
Michael Lubrano	Found	Partially Found	Yes
Robert Graber	Found	Lost	No
Ernest Timmons	Found	Lost	No
Malik Washington	Found	Lost	Yes
Richard Burnham	Found	Lost	Yes
Howard Thornton III	Found	Lost	No
James Marcotte	Found	Lost	No
Anthony Palumbo	Found	Lost	Yes
Savio Noronha	Lost	Lost	No
Jeremy Keister	Found	Lost	Yes
Michael Murray	Found	Lost	No however his encounter with Chris is described in Jeremy Keister podcast
John Donnelly	Found	Lost	Yes
Thomas Shin	Found	Lost	Yes
Terry Warner	Found	Lost	Yes
Todd Lewis	Found	Lost	Yes
Kazuo Akutsu	Found	Partially Found	No

Unaired

Four suspects - Sean Lee, William Hare, Justo Benavides and Chris Raynor - were unaired, with Sean Lee apparently having showed up concurrently with Jeremy Keister and Michael Murray, being arrested while Keister and Murray were being confronted by Hansen. Hare was not interviewed by Hansen either, while Benavides and Raynor appeared in brief snippets, apparently having been interviewed. However, their uncut confrontations remain lost.

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Hansen Confrontation	Podcast
Sean Lee	Found	N/A	No
William Hare	Found	N/A	No
Justo Benavides	Found	Lost	No
Chris Raynor	Found	Lost	No

Bowling Green, Kentucky

Finally, the Bowling Green, Kentucky sting was conducted in October 2007 and resulted in the arrests of seven men over four days. Among them included Lorne Armstrong, who had a 407-page chatlog and showed up on his birthday; James Travis Fowler, a registered sex offender convicted in 1995 for having sex with an underage seventeen-year-old; Dustin McPhetridge, a sufferer of cerebral palsy who was previously caught chatting inappropriately online with teenage girls. He also possessed many indecent images and videos of children on DVD-Rs; and Michael Patterson who claimed to be a police detective and who got tasered since he claimed he had a hand gun. Also included were highlights of the Highland Heights sting Dateline NBC was not involved with, with a segment on Jim Rauch, a University of Cincinnati faculty member, whose police interrogation and phone conversation with the decoy became famous among the TCAP community.

All the predators featured were convicted, and thus their chatlogs were published on the Perverted Justice website. A freedom of information request also proved successful in gaining all of the police interrogations. The only missing interrogation media for Bowling Green is the video for Jeremy Todd West, although a complete audio recording has been recovered.

As for uncut interviews, two were uploaded to YouTube, originating from an unusual source. It was revealed that the uncut Lorne Armstrong interview was actually sent by Armstrong to a catfish of his, believing that NBC unfairly represented him in the broadcast and that the uncut footage would show him in a better light when seen by others. Also included in the tape was James Travis Fowler's segment. The rest have yet to see the light of day, although an uncut clip of Michael Patterson being tased after his interview concluded has been recovered.

Kentucky Episode

Predator	Chatlog	Uncut Hansen Confrontation	Uncut Police Interrogation	Podcast
James “Jim” Rauch	Found	N/A	Found	No
John Wesley Elliot	Found	Lost	Found	Yes
Jeremy Todd West	Found	Lost	Found (Audio), Lost (Video)	Yes
Lorne Armstrong	Found	Found	Found	No
Dustin McPhetridge	Found	Lost	Found	Yes
Richard Watwood	Found	Lost	Found	No
James Travis Fowler	Found	Found	Found, Found	Yes
Michael Patterson	Found	Partially Found	Found	Yes

See Also

• Hansen vs. Predator (partially lost chatlogs, uncut interviews and police interrogations; 2015)

External Links

• Perverted Justice home page.
• IMDB page for To Catch a Predator.